Jeffrey William Pollard#
| Membership Number: | 6027 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ed.ac.uk/centre-reproductive-health/centre-director-professor-jeffrey-w-pollard |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4579-0053 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Affiliated Professor CCBIO Bergen, Norway
- 2015 - present Emeritus Louis Goldstein Swan Chair, Depts. Developmental and Molecular Biology and OB/GYN and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
- 2018 - 2021 Visiting Professor at Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012 - 2022 Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2012 - present Professor of Resilience Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2012 - 2015 Honorary Professorship, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
- 2009 - 2014 Director, NICHD Specialized Cooperative Center in Reproduction and Infertility Research (SCCPIR), Albert Einstein Collage of Medicine, New York, USA
- 2008 - 2016 Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Women’s Cancer Research.Albert Einstein Collage of Medicine, New York, USA.
- 2002 - 2012 Deputy Director, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, New York, USA
- 2000 - 2014 Director, Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Macrophages in tissue repair
- Ovarian cancer
- Tumour microenvironment
- Macrophage in development
- Macrophages
- Female reproductive hormones
- Breast cancer
- Glioblastoma
- Breast cancer
- Endometrial cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Rothschild Yvette–Meynet Curie award, Institut Curie, France
- 2010 American Cancer Society Medal of Honor for Basic Science Research in tumour immunology
- 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (FAAAS)
- 2013 - 2018 The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2013 Fellow Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
- 2013 - 2021 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
- 2015 Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 2015 Listed in “Who’s Who” UK
- 2016 Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
